HONEY AND POLLEN PLANTS. 65 
visited by hive bees would occupy far too much space for a brief treat- 
ise like this. Many plants are therefore omitted which secrete nectar 
freely but which are abundant only locally; others are left out because 
they secrete only at rare intervals, or under peculiar conditions, or are 
visited by bees only when some better honey source fails; others again 
because, though secreting well and readily yielding their honey or pol- 
len stores to the bees, they are not often present in sufficient numbers 
in any one locality to enable the bees to add materially to their surplus 
stores. Such plants are, however, often of great value because they 
cause the bees to rear brood during intervals between the times of stor- 
ing surplus honey and thus keep the colonies populous for successive 
harvests. 
Besides the main honey plants it would be easy to name for any local- 
ity quite a number of secondary importance which are frequented by 
honey bees, yet even though the localities were bnt a few miles apart 
scarcely any two lists would agree either as to the plants to be included 
or as to their relative importance. The following honey and pollen pro- 
ducing plants are therefore of wide distribution or of special importance 
in certain localities. 
For convenience separate lists are given for the three sections of the 
United States made by the parallels of 35^ and 40° N. The flora of the 
western portion of each section differs of course greatly from that of 
the eastern part of the same section. Only the most important honey 
yielders among those of local interest in the extreme Southwest and the 
West have been included in the lists, and the chief range of each has 
been noted. An effort has been made to indicate by the type the rela- 
tive importance of the plants as pollen and honey producers. 
NORTH AND NORTHEAST. 
[Above 40= K.J 
Red or Soft Maple (Jeer rubrunt) Vpril. 
Alders (Ahius) April. 
Elm (TJlmus) April. 
Willows (Salix) Vpr.-May. 
Dandelion (Taraxacum taraxacum = T. officinale of Gray's Manual) Vpr.-May. 
Sugar, Rock, or Hard Maple (Acer saceharum=A. saccharxnum of Gray's 
Manual) Vpr.-May. 
Juneberry, or Service lurry ( Amelanehier canadensis) May. 
Wild Crab Apples (Pyrus) May. 
Gooseberry and Currant (Ribes) May. 
Peach, Cherry, and Plum {Prunus) May. 
Peak and Apple (Pyrus) Ma\ 
Huckleberries and Blueberries (Craylussacia and Faccinium) May-June. 
Common, Black, 01 Yellow Locust (Bobinia pseudacacia) May-June. 
European Horse-chestnut {JEseulus hippocastauum) May-June. 
Common Barberry (Herberts vulgaris) May-June. 
Tulip Tree, or "WterrawooD" (Liriodendron tulipifera) May-June. 
Grapevines ( Fitis) May-June. 
Rape ( Brassioa napus) May-June. 
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